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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
headlines, the vaccine sector was a pretty sleepy space. Interest in vaccine development and production had been on the decline for decades. In the 1960s—the triumphant years after Jonas Salk discovered the first polio vaccine—there were 26 View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
life-sciences center of the world, by virtue of its unsurpassed “cluster” of world-renowned universities and teaching hospitals; medical-device, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies; financial firms; and skilled workers. “The leadership... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several months later), it was the first time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
Internal Revenue Service. Senior advisor, The Carlyle Group. He upgraded technology and information systems and stressed customer service in a dramatic turnaround of the IRS. Daniel L. Vasella, M.D. (PMD 57, 1989), chairman and CEO of Novartis AG, the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
school, she got a job in a hotel sales department and decided to defer her education. Two years later, Pfizer headhunted Chong. She didn’t know the number of chambers in the heart, she admitted during her interview with the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
approach not just to insurance and reimbursement, but also to the places where medical services are delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed, the way we educate medical professionals, and who performs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
care and life sciences issues, with the lion’s share focusing on the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. More than twenty HBS professors from different disciplines have contributed to this effort, which Pisano says is analogous to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
alumni event attracted more than sixty HBS graduates representing biotechnology, e-commerce, managed care, and pharmaceutical companies. The program featured briefings from HBS faculty members interested in issues related to health-care... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
says Feickert of the Seattle Seahawks quarterback. “But most people don’t know his older brother, Harrison, was also a standout Division I football player who has had a very successful career as an entrepreneur and in the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in turning losing teams into winners, Louis-Dreyfus has an enviable record of reshaping underperforming companies into formidable competitors. A scion of one of France's most prominent business families, he rejuvenated IMS International, a struggling U.S. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
entrepreneur who has had a successful career in business, finance, yachting, and philanthropy. He is the former CEO of Serono SA (formerly known Ares-Serono), a family-controlled global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology leader whose roots... View Details
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
that of his father, who was trained as an engineer and ended up in the pharmaceutical industry. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and MIT, respectively, and he spent a year pursuing advanced studies in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
& Co., kicked off the first plenary session with a quick overview of factors contributing to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry's success in competing in the global market. Among other ad- vantages, Gilmartin cited the U.S. government's... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
pharmaceutical CEO’s perspective on what’s next in Alzheimer’s research; and a panel discussion on the digital transformation of health care. “While many other organizations might claim to offer similar topics, the VRT series is designed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a pharmaceutical industry computer firm —... View Details